In the post on reddit which firstly made the claim, people showed into the chinese source which was provided and didnt find even a topic about Miracle- being banned by China. In fact they did laugh about reddit claiming the chinese source would be a big news site for esports.

So stop false accuses with no evidence. I know some people like to cultivate their hate towards China (especially on reddit) but this wont help.

On January 17 2019 00:31 Nyan wrote:My hype for the tournament completely died with this.Especially after TL dominating the last couple of games they played.

I dislike this pro season a lot as a viewer. There is such a big down time between the majors especially with minors being one week before majors.

i agree, having such a long break between worthwhile events is bad, i think it really would make the casual fans lose whatever interest they had after TI and move on to something else. its a lot like tennis, where the 4 majors gets like 99% of the attention and no one cares about anything else in between.

im sure some players are happy with this, but i would think it does get kinda stale just scrimming for 2+ months.

On January 17 2019 00:31 Nyan wrote:My hype for the tournament completely died with this.Especially after TL dominating the last couple of games they played.

I dislike this pro season a lot as a viewer. There is such a big down time between the majors especially with minors being one week before majors.

i agree, having such a long break between worthwhile events is bad, i think it really would make the casual fans lose whatever interest they had after TI and move on to something else. its a lot like tennis, where the 4 majors gets like 99% of the attention and no one cares about anything else in between.

im sure some players are happy with this, but i would think it does get kinda stale just scrimming for 2+ months.

Doing online events and scrimming should probably be preferable in most cases. Travelling for business isn't fun for most people I've talked to. Many players also mentioned too much travelling as reasons they did poorly.

Well, actually Burning said liquid had contacted him before shadow, but he is too close to team Aster so he rejected the invitation. To be honest, faith_bian is the best English user among Chinese Dota player right now. I think it would be just like cty playing for secret.

On January 17 2019 00:58 Rochhardo wrote:In the post on reddit which firstly made the claim, people showed into the chinese source which was provided and didnt find even a topic about Miracle- being banned by China. In fact they did laugh about reddit claiming the chinese source would be a big news site for esports.

So stop false accuses with no evidence. I know some people like to cultivate their hate towards China (especially on reddit) but this wont help.

I stay away from reddit but not twitter. And it seems the rumors of being banned were circulating there as well.

I’ll have the spaghetti. With a side salad. If the salad is on top, I send it back.

On January 17 2019 04:49 Wineandbread wrote:Any speculation on the real reason? Must be some kind of family emergency I guess.

In any case it sucks for liquid, they missed the first major and now are running into CQ with a standin so they're gonna be heavily gimped on DPC points.

That being said though as long as their full roster holds steady I still don't think it'll be a problem for them to snag a TI invite given the teams featured in the top DPC atm

And not like they can't snag at least a few points here even if they are missing their 1, but in terms of podium finishes there's no way it will happen. MC carried NiP to 4th at KL after all ;P

I dont think it will be an issue. There are still 3 majors left after this and by the looks of it one win or a couple of top 3 finishes gets you into top 12. And even if that fails somehow i guess there will be 2 qualifier spots for EU.

On January 16 2019 21:54 Micro_Jackson wrote:In my opinion this is bigger then the KuKu drama. KuKu and TNC made huge mistakes that justified a punishment. Liquid did nothing wrong. Miracle- did nothing wrong and he is still banned from the event the same way.

Is Valve really willing to risk to have a TI winner with a huge Asterísk because some of the best western players get "randomly" banned?

You're delusional, next thing you notice will be China enter your home and ban you. Lmao